So it's no surprise to hear the 86-year-old blast Alex Rodriguez and other PED users.

Tommy Lasorda (AP Photo)

"I'm telling you I don't like cheaters. They don't belong in the game," Lasorda told reporters Tuesday. The former Los Angeles Dodgers manager was appearing at a New York fundraiser for the Baseball Assistance Team, which assists ex-players who have fallen on hard times.

Here is some of what Lasorda had to say:

ON A-ROD: "I always had great admiration for him. I knew him even before he graduated high school. When he was hitting those home runs, I thought, 'At least this guy's doing it legitimately.' And then of course we find out he wasn't ... so it really turned my opinion of him."

ON PED USERS: "I'm disappointed in this game of ours, which is so great, that somebody has to do things to cheat. And that's not right. How about those pitchers that they hit all those home runs off? Nobody thinks about those guys."

"If I'm pitching and I know that guy up there is using that stuff, I'm going to hit him right in the mouth."

ON THE HALL OF FAME: "That's a tremendous gift to you, to be put in baseball's Hall of Fame. To be in there, you gotta represent that for the rest of your life as a Hall of Famer. And when somebody breaks the rules, the don't belong in there."

ON THE USE OF AMPHETAMINES BY PLAYERS OF EARLIER GENERATIONS: "Amphetemines? What did amphetamines do? This is a different type ... Even my wife said, 'Well, they have to hit the ball.' I said, 'Sure, they hit the ball.' But those balls that were caught on the warning track are now in the seats, and that's the thing that makes the difference.

ON THE FANS: "We gotta get this baseball game to where the fans can understand everything's on the same level, everybody has the same opportunities. That's the way it should be. That's the way it used to be! We never heard of steroids. Half the guys could even spell it.

"We gotta keep this game of ours clean and where we don't have no problems."